Fashionable Gamesters.

Evening Star, Issue 7484, 31 March 1888, Page 1 (Supplement)

Fashionable Gamesters.

A somewhat sensational trial took place at Vienna recently, in which the names of many highly-placed personages were mixed up. The defendant was Samuel Philip Fuchs, aged seventy-four, who was being tried for perjury alleged to have been committed at the German Consul-General's office in London. Fuchs stated, while under cross-examination, that some years ago he lost 100,000 thalers (about L 15.000) at Baden-Baden to a personage of the highest social position in England, and not having sufficient money he was compelled to give bills, which were all honored as they fell due. Another of Herr Fuchs's illustrious gambling associates was Prince Gustavus von Sayn-Wittgenstein Berneberg, the prosecutor in a recent trial, the specific charge against Herr Fuchs being that he had demanded payment from the Prince of a sum of COO.OOO marks (L 30.000) which he claimed to have lent him. The Prince, however, declared that this money had not been lent him, but admitted that it was a gambling debt which in Austria, as in England, is not recoverable by law. It was on this ground that Prince Gustavus proceeded against Herr Fuchs, who, from his own account, has been considerably victimised by his illustrious associates. Ho declares that he has lost a million florins in gambling, and on the occasion at Baden-Baden abovementioned he lost in all 200,000 thalers. In the end the jury gave a verdict against the complainant by eleven votes to one. This is the ninth time that Herr Fuchs has been prosecuted for perjury and " false gaming." _________